"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "

Anais Nin

The almond tree

"An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. "What, grandad!" I exclaimed, "planting an almond tree?" and he, bent as he was, turned round and said, "my son, I carry on as if I should never die." I replied, "and I carry on as if I was going to die any minute".
Which of us was right?"
Nikos Kazantzakis

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